So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors
It's been well over a year since I started serving 429s to clients which are hitting the feed too often. Since then, much has happened, and most of it is generally good news.
Edmund Husserl — Consciousness - Ralph Ammer
A short introduction to Edmund Husserl's phenomenology: How can we explain consciousness and why is it the basis of all science.
Doing is normally distributed, learning is log-normal
There are few things I think about more than the essays on gwern.net, and there are few with as satisfying a theoretical payout to contemplate in my orb as his essay on “leaky pipelines”, aka log-normal distributions. The skulk: Say you’re working on a Laravel…
The best have intuition
If you want to be the best at what you do, you need to develop a feel for it, an "intuition".
How to be a man: The 9 qualities of masculinity
All boys must develop these nine qualities of a masculine man to achieve their greatest potential. They are the passage into manhood.
Building to Last
Beauty Doesn't Fade
Kustomize Deployments with Reliza Hub - Work & Life Notes
In this tutorial I will present reference setup for Kustomize Deployments with Reliza Hub. We will use our Rebom project as a base. This tutorial would be
Reproducing GPT-2 (124M) in llm.c in 90 minutes for $20 · karpathy/llm.c · Discussion #481
Let's reproduce the GPT-2 (124M) in llm.c (~4,000 lines of C/CUDA) in 90 minutes for $20. The 124M model is the smallest model in the GPT-2 series released by OpenAI in 2019, and is actually quite ...
Exploring Embedding spaces with my photo library
Embedding spaces have become extremely popular in recent years. Their use extends to areas like Recommender Systems, search or RAG. When…
How good is GPT-4o at generating Flask apps? Surprisingly promising
Results from building Flask apps with GPT-4o
20 Years of Blogging; On my own website
Reflecting on two decades of blogging evolution
Should we teach high schoolers Scratch? - Jonathan Garelick
I saw a post today saying that we shouldn’t be teaching high schoolers the Scratch programming language–they should go straight to the harder ones. As someone who has taught programming to both children and adults, including at a prestigious code bootcamp (App…
Approximate Binary Vector Search for RAG in Julia
May 28, 2024
OpenAI: Fallout
Previously: OpenAI: Exodus (contains links at top to earlier episodes), Do Not Mess With Scarlett Johansson We have learned more since last week. It’s worse than we knew. How much worse? In which w…
Kotlin Mobile Monorepo
We recently migrated from a multi-repo to a monorepo for our ios and android ridehailing mobile applications. This post will go over why and how we did this.
Effects Showroom - TerminalTextEffects Docs
TerminalTextEffects Documentation
How can I force a DLL to register itself if it won't respond to regsvr32? - The Old New Thing
You can't force something that isn't there.
Do I not like Ruby anymore?
steenuil's blog
Cancel WhenAny - linked CancellationTokenSource
In today's short post, I will show you how to cancel a Task with multiple inputs (aka multiple CancellationTokens) using CancellationTokenSource and CancellationTokenSource.CreateLinkedTokenSource.
WP21
It seems like just yesterday WordPress was becoming a teenager, and in a blink of the eye it’s now old enough to drink! 21 years since Mike and I did the first release of WordPress, forking …
Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems
Wi-Fi-based Positioning Systems (WPSes) are used by modern mobile devices to learn their position using nearby Wi-Fi access points as landmarks. In this work, we show that Apple's WPS can be abused to create a privacy threat on a global scale. We present an at…
GitHub - quickwit-oss/tantivy: Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust
Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust - quickwit-oss/tantivy
Deprecating CSLA Synchronous APIs
Over the years (decades actually), CSLA has gone through many, many major changes.
Understanding Supply-Chain Attacks and OWASP Dependency Check
In today's software development landscape, security is a paramount concern. As developers, we often rely on third-party libraries and framew...
Playwright in Action: From Setup to Best Practices | Azure Developers JavaScript Day 2024
Another excellent session was held during the Azure Developers JavaScript Day 2024 event! This time, the focus was on Playwright. But what is Playwright? And..
Configure Custom 404 Not Found Page With Azure Static Web Apps | Build5Nines
When managing a website, it's crucial to ensure a seamless user experience, even when things go wrong. One common scenario is the 404 Not Found error when a
Challenges in Uploading Files Over 2GB via HTTP Protocol in IIS Web Server
Recently, I had worked on a case where customer`s ask was to upload a file larger than 2gb into the IIS hosted web application. In my case, customer had..
City In A Bottle – A 256 Byte Raycasting System
Hello size coding fans. Today, I have something amazing to share: A tiny raycasting engine and city generator that fits in a standalone 256 byte html file. In this post I will share all the secrets…
Web App Security—Broken Authentication vs Session Management
Broken authentication and inefficient session management are two common vulnerabilities that can expose a web application to attack. Let’s learn about them.
Implement a Microsoft Entra ID external authentication method using ASP.NET Core and OpenIddict
The article shows how to implement a Microsoft Entra ID external authentication method (EAM) using ASP.NET Core, OpenIddict and FIDO2/passkeys. The application using ASP.NET Core Identity to manage…
Continuous delivery without a CI server
An illustrative example.
How to test a Roslyn analyzer - Gérald Barré
In this post, I describe how to test a Roslyn analyzer using the Roslyn SDK NuGet packages.
internetarchive (@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org)
Sorry to say, archive.org is under a ddos attack. The data is not affected, but most services are unavailable. We are working on it & will post updates in comments.
Should I Use <abbr title="JSON Web Token"><span class="caps">JWT</span></abbr>s For Authentication Tokens?
No.Not satisfied? Fine, fine. I'll write a longer answer.Let's talk about what we're talking about. JWT stands for JSON Web Tokens, a reasonably well defined standard for authenticated to